Select Bibliography in Visual Studies

Visual Studies: Introductions and Overviews

• Barnard, Malcolm. Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave, 2001.
• Barrett, Terry. Interpreting Art: Responding to Visual Culture. London: Mayfield, 2002.
• Bryson, Norman, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith P. F. Moxey. Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994.
• Burgin, Victor. In/different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
• Dikovitskaya, Margarita. Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual After the Cultural Turn. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.
• Heywood, Ian, and Barry Sandywell. Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual. London; New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Howells, Richard. Visual Culture: An Introduction. Oxford: Polity, 2003.
• Howells, Richard, Dr. Visual Culture. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA, USA: Polity, 2003.
• Jenks, Chris. Visual Culture. London ; New York: Routledge, 1995.
• Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London ; New York: Routledge, 2003.
• Morra, Joanne, and Marquard Smith, eds. Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London; New York : Routledge, 2006.
• Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University, 2004.
• Walker, John Albert, and Sarah Chaplin. Visual Culture: An Introduction. Manchester, UK; New York; New York: Manchester University Press.

Visual Studies: Anthologies

• Evans, Jessica, and Stuart Hall. Visual Culture: The Reader. London; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications in association with the Open University, 1999.
• Przyblyski, Jeannene M., and Vanessa R. Schwartz. The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Cognitive Science and Visual Studies

• Robert L. Solso. Cognition and the Visual Arts. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
  A perceptual psychologist explores how viewers' cultural knowledge and social position influence the way they view a painting, and perceive mood and feeling.
• Semir Zeki. Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  A neuroscientist examines how the human visual apparatus perceives color, recognizes faces, and discerns form and motion.

Cognitive Science, Visual Studies, and Film

• Bordwell, David and Noel Carroll, eds. Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
  The essays present alternatives to semiotics, Marxism, and psychoanalysis in film interpretation drawing on ideas drawn from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy.
• Currie, Gregory. Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  This book draws on cognitive science to discuss viewers' emotional and imaginative response to film.

Visual Studies and Film

• Griffiths, Alison. Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Visual Studies and Gender

• Bloom, Lisa. With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
• Carson, Fiona, and Claire Pajaczkowska. Feminist Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Cherry, Deborah. Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850-1900. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Davidov, Judith Fryer. Women's Camera Work: Self/body/other in American Visual Culture. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
• Doy, Gen. Women and Visual Culture in 19th Century France, 1800-1852. London: Leicester University Press, 2001.
• Draper, Amanda Elizabeth. 'but Men must Work and Women must Weep': Representations of Gender, Mourning and Bereavement in Victorian Visual Culture. University of London: 1996.
• Huneault, Kristina. Difficult Subjects : Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914. British Art and Visual Culture since 1750. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
• Levy, Allison. Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
• Pointon, Marcia R. Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture, 1665-1800. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Visual Studies and Geography

• Osborne, Peter. Traveling Light : Photography, Travel, and Visual Culture. Critical Image. Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press, 2000.
• Quilley, Geoff, and Kay Dian Kriz. An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the Atlantic World, 1660-1830. Manchester, UK; New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2003.
• Rogoff, Irit. Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.

Visual Studies and Literature

• Conway, Alison Margaret. Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
• Grant, Charlotte. The Visual Culture of Sensibility: Optics, the Sentimental and the Picturesque 1712 -1788. University of Cambridge: 1995.
• Jacobs, Karen. The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
• Zamora, Lois Parkinson. The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Visual Studies and Museums

• Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.

Visual Studies and Race

• Berger, Martin A. Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
• Bloom, Lisa. With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
• Doy, Gen. Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000.
• Erickson, Peter, and Clark Hulse. Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, Empire in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
• Smith, Shawn Michelle. Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
• ---. American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Visual Studies and Religion

• Dyrness, William A. Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Flanagan, Kieran. Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology, and Theology. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Morgan, David. The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
• Morgan, David, and Sally M. Promey. The Visual Culture of American Religions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Visual Studies and Television

• Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Visual Studies and the Family

• Retford, Kate, and University of Warwick. Family and Familiarity: The Domestic Sphere in Eighteenth-Century English Visual Culture. University of Warwick: 2000.

Visual Studies and the Human Body

• Adler, Kathleen, and Marcia R. Pointon. The Body Imaged: The Human Form and Visual Culture since the Renaissance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Cartwright, Lisa. Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
• Pointon, Marcia, and Kathleen Adler. The Body Imaged : The Human Form and Visual Culture since the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Visual Studies and the Islamic World

• Bohrer, Frederick Nathaniel. Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Grabar, Oleg. Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2006.
• Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn, and Mary Roberts. Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture. New Interventions in Art History. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2005.

Historical Studies

• Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate, and Gabriel P. Weisberg. The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture Under the July Monarchy. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1994.
• Condee, Nancy. Soviet Hieroglyphics : Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia. Bloomington; London: Indiana University Press; BFI Pub, 1995.
• Farago, Claire J. Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
• Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Kromm, Jane. The Art of Frenzy: Public Madness in the Visual Culture, 1500-1850. London ;; New York: Continuum, 2002.
• Thomson, Richard. The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
• Wood, Gillen D'Arcy. The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860. New York, N.Y: Palgrave, 2001.
• Zelizer, Barbie. Visual Culture and the Holocaust. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

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